This Year For Halloween, Go Trick-or-Voting!by T. Eve Greenaway and Chinyere Tutashinda, AlterNet.org
By going door-to-door in costume, offering up treats, voting tips and directions to polling places, this year’s trick-or-voters will also be spreading the word: there has never been a better time to make politics fun.
“People are already expecting you to knock on their door on Halloween. So it’s the one day of the year where people will be home and ready to answer the door,” says Sarita “the Great Witch” Ryan, an organizer for Trick or Vote. “This way, it’ll be fun for everybody involved, not just another [election] canvasser coming by.”
The idea is simple enough. This year, Halloween falls just two days before what many are calling the “most important election of our lifetime.” And, while most of us have had it up to here with both Bush and Kerry – their voices on the radio, their mugs all over the television and on the front of all the newspapers – young people everywhere are using this holiday to remind each other that the election is as much about one another, and the issues we care about, as it is about the candidates. By going door-to-door in costume, offering up directions to polling places, reminders to bring an ID, and Halloween classics like Tootsie Rolls and Pal bubblegum, this year’s trick-or-voters will also be spreading the word: politics and fun are not opposing forces.
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